An up-and-down Astros offense totaled four hits against Mets' Max Scherzer, who worked...
’s no-hitter in 2019 in Toronto aired on the Minute Maid Park video board. Fans cheered as a camera showed the Mets’ dugout and Verlander, the former Astros ace, who doffed his cap to the crowd.
Scherzer entered with a 4.45 ERA, having allowed 11 runs in his prior two starts. The righthander hardly resembled that version as he held the Astros scoreless for the first six innings of an 11-1 loss, their fifth in a row. It is the Astros’ longest losing streak since a six-game skid in April 2021. A few chants of “Let’s go, Mets” accompanied Monday’s loss as it became a blowout in the ninth inning.
Jeremy Peña’s single in the third inning was Houston’s lone hit through five. Martín Maldonado and Alex Bregman struck singles in the sixth. Scherzer struck Kyle Tucker out swinging on a slider to strand them. The Astros were held to one or zero runs for the 15th time this year and the fourth time in their last eight games. Yordan Alvarez’s absence from the lineup is clearly felt. In their last 11 games, starting with the game in Toronto that Alvarez exited, the Astros are 3-8 and have scored three or fewer runs five times.
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